Re: customize, futility of byte-compiling

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Per Abrahamsen

Subject:

Re: customize, futility of byte-compiling

Date:

Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:01:59 +0200

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Edward Welbourne <address@hidden> writes:
> Why does byte-compilation gain no benefit ?
> Is this specific to customizations, or generally true ?
The "customize" information is just a single function call, all the
real work is done by the function it calls. So you can byte-compile
the call to the function, but that doesn't make the function itself
(where the time is spend) any faster.